Sentence examples for airliner shot from inspiring English sources
The passengers on board the airliner shot down over Ukraine could have been from any country.
Surely, giving pilots a chance to defend the cockpit is preferable to having the hijackers win, or having the airliner shot down by the Defense Department.
They were investigating MH17, the Malaysian airliner shot down in the summer of 2014 in eastern Ukraine by a Buk anti-aircraft missile.
Imagine the resources that would have been poured into the investigation if 500 white Europeans had been deliberately killed in the Mediterranean — far more, clearly, than the 298 who died in the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine two months earlier.
There have been local agreements to hold fire, for example during the recovery of bodies from a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel territory in July, but Thursday's announcements were the first time the two sides have called for a full truce.
Washington believes that pro-Russian separatists most likely shot down the airliner "by mistake," not realizing it was a civilian passenger flight, U.S. intelligence officials said.
In 2014, a Russian antiaircraft missile shot down a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine, killing 298 people.
On our planet there are only two countries that have in the past shot down a civilian airliner by accident.
Instructors said the marshals had the highest shooting-accuracy standard of any federal law enforcement agency, and aimed exclusively at the head, mid-chest, or mid-back, because of the possibility that a stray shot could hit an engine or another critical part of an airliner.
